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History of Aging

has long been recognized that people do not age at the same rate. In early modern Europe, the period during which a person is cons...

Pranab Chatterjee

the Journal of Applied Social Sciences and Social Work (Bio-sketch, 2006). His books include Repackaging the Welfare State, which ...

Kingsolver: “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”

of oil a year per citizen" which is almost as much as we use in our vehicles (Kingsolver, Kingsolver and Hopp, 2007, p. 5). The hu...

Essay on Auguste Comte

equality reversed and he no longer supported the cause of "economic and moral independence" for women in his later years, but rath...

Tattoo Removal and Societal Approval

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Child Abuse and Its Relationship to Sociology

that within a group there exists "the possibility for a contagion of emotional and irrational thoughts and behavior which causes a...

Self-Concept Maintenance

Self-esteem and self-concept have always been controversial in the fields of psychology and sociology but the self became an accep...

Advertising and Its Relation to Psychology, Sociology, and Mass Communications

or negatively (Bharadwaj, Tuli, & Bonfrer, 2011). Moreover, both systematic and idiosyncratic risks can be managed effectively thr...

Risk Society in the 21st Century

in an era of manufactured uncertainties". What this means is that institutions of social and cultural power have begun to manufact...

A Review of a Sociology Research Study

becoming more challenging and parents are increasingly concerned that their adolescents are ill-prepared for becoming adults. Whil...

"Family Guy" - A Sociological Reading

cross-country destination to fulfill a nefarious purpose. Despite being a baby and a dog, Stewie and Brian are both fully articula...

Reading and Perceiving Color

The time it takes individuals to enunciate a color when presented with the written word representing that color can vary according...

Flowers for Algernon - Intelligence and Dehumanization

people he thought of as his friends were merely teasing him because of his retardation, and later on, he even begins to suffer iso...

Implications for Ethical Leadership from the Milgram Experiments

condition would result in his death. Nevertheless, the authoritative doctor continued to call for the button to be pressed, and to...

Two Questions in Psychology

resuilts in problematic outcomes. This is not true; experimental designs sometimes result in problematic outcomes for the partici...

Observational Learning and Free Will

discipline of marketing and advertising, and indeed the entire basis of consumer society, is predicated upon an assumption of free...

Justice and Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

This essay presents the writer's reflections on justice and the subjects of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, which is detailed in...

Social Psychology - An Overview

a synthetic viewpoint along the nature vs nurture spectrum, holding that while some types of personality might be oriented towards...

Personal Space Territoriality

the brutality of the guards. As the prisoners became more submissive, the guards became more sadistic and demanded even more obedi...

Fluid Dynamics - An Overview

be a tendency for deviation when the extremes are in opposition to one another, such as with a small water height and a large hole...

Pancreatic Cancer and Gene Mutations

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at gene therapies for pancreatic cancer. The role of the KRAS gene is examined through...

Hawthorne and Anti-Transcendentalism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

Public Employees Game the System

In 2003, police officers in Parma, Ohio used many illegal and immoral methods to collect overtime pay that was not deserved. In 20...

Bread will Rise With or Without Air Exposure

This 3 page paper gives a potential experiment that could be dine to test if bread dough rise is effected by air exposure. This pa...

The IRS and Other Cheaters

Ariely and his team conducted a number of experiments at three universities to investigate the likelihood of cheating if the stude...

Law Enforcement Models

Four decades ago, police departments began considering other models of policing that would bring them closer to the people. Team p...

Criminal Justice and Community Relations

is called Cab Watch, something that prompts taxi drivers in New York City to report crime (Miller & Hess, 2005). This is actually ...

The Effects of Daily Watering on Grass Growth and Color

The owner of House B might use fertilizer, while the owner of House B may not. The soil conditions might also differ. The owner ...

Bristol-Meyers and the Ethics of AIDS Research

This 3 page paper discusses the ethical implications of Bristol-Meyers’ use of African villagers in an AIDS drug testing experimen...

Visual Perception/The Stroop Experiment

an incongruent series of color names, i.e., "red" is written in blue ink, etc. Stroop showed that it takes subjects longer to iden...